Obituaries

Frederick Ledfors, Sr.

Frederick Ledfors, Sr.

Jul 13, 2010

Frederick Dale Ledfors, Sr., 66, of Cadiz died Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at his home. He was born May 28, 1944 in Cadiz, a son of the late Carl Ledfors and the late Ann Kovacik Ledfors Butler. Mr. Ledfors was a highly decorated officer retired from the United States Army at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was awarded the...

James Albaugh

James Albaugh

Jul 7, 2010

James Parkinson Albaugh, 80, Hopedale, Ohio died Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio after a short illness. He was born November 18, 1929 in German Township, Harrison County where he resided all of his life. He was a son of the late Sylvester and Olive Graham Albaugh. He was preceded in death in addition to his...

Larry Newcomer

Larry Newcomer

Jul 3, 2010

Larry Earl Newcomer, 70, of Cadiz, died Saturday, July 3, 2010 at his home. He was born May 4, 1940 in Davis, WV, son of the late Earl LeRoy and Phyllis Marie Turney Newcomer. Larry was a parts clerk, having worked at the former Charles Henson Ford Agency in Cadiz, and in other automotive service agencies in Martins Ferry, Wheeling...

Ronald Hamilton

Ronald Hamilton

Jun 28, 2010

Ronald Edward Hamilton, 56, of Cadiz, formerly of Jewett, died Monday, June 28, 2010 at Palliative Care Unit, Valley Hospice, Steubenville, Ohio. Ron was born January 14, 1954 in Martins Ferry, Ohio a son of Naomi Jamison Booth and the late Charles E. Hamilton. Ron was a veteran having served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam, and a former employee...

Justin Jordan

Justin Jordan

Jun 26, 2010

Justin Lee Jordan, 26, of Cadiz, died Saturday, June 26, 2010, at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born June 22, 1984 in Bellaire, Ohio, a son of Christina Lea Jordan and Benjamin Burgins, both of Cadiz. Justin was an Army Veteran of the Iraq War having recently been discharged. He was a graduate of Harrison Central High School and...

John Muze

John Muze

Jun 26, 2010

John "Ed" Edward Muze, 80, Cadiz died Saturday, June 26, 2010 at his home. Ed was born March 9, 1930 in Piney Fork, Ohio a son of the late William Joseph and Florence Mercer Muze. Ed was a veteran having served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War where he received 5 Bronze Stars. After his military service, he...

Richard Hreha

Richard Hreha

Jun 24, 2010

Richard Andrew �Ricky� Hreha, 55, of Hanover Ridge, Jewett, died Thursday, June 24, 2010 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born November 14, 1954 in Martins Ferry, OH, a son of Edward R. and Virginia McCoy Hreha of Germano. Ricky was a truck driver for Apex Landfill in Amsterdam, a Marine Corps Veteran of the Viet Nam Era, and...

David Downs

David Downs

Jun 23, 2010

David W. Downs, 69, of Cadiz, died Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. He was born September 15, 1940 in Scott, Arkansas, a son of the late Paul and Mary Hester Tomkins. Dave was a retired truck driver and a Navy Veteran participating in Operation Hardtack, a nuclear testing operation. In addition to his parents,...

John Walker

John Walker

Jun 14, 2010

John William "Bill" Walker, 60, Cadiz, died Monday, June 14, 2010 at Harrison Community Hospital emergency room. Bill was born December 2, 1949 in Clarion, Penn. a son of the late Paul R. and Margaret Pascorell Walker. Bill was a member of St. Marks Church in Clarion County, Pennsylvania and a veteran having served in the U.S. Army. Bill was...

Ann Young

Ann Young

Jun 12, 2010

Ann Mattern Young, 81, of Painesville, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, died Saturday, June 12, 2010 at Tri Point Medical Center in Concord, OH. She was born February 11, 1929 in Adena, Ohio, a daughter of the late Albert H. Mattern and Mary Anna Dziatkowicz Mattern. Mrs. Young was a waitress and clerk, having worked at Bertschi's Restaurant in Cadiz and...

Jean Henderson

Jean Henderson

Jun 7, 2010

(Thelma) Jean Henderson passed away in her home and surrounded by her loving family on Monday, June 07, 2010. She was strong and brave through a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. Jean was born March 16, 1939 in Georgetown, Ohio. She was the daughter of the late Charles William Stewart and Mary Emma Moore Stewart. She married Stuart Henderson, Jr....

William Kuhn, Sr.

William Kuhn, Sr.

May 28, 2010

William Eugene Kuhn, Sr., 70, Hopedale, died Friday, May 28, 2010 at Weirton Medical Center. He was born July 27, 1939 in Steubenville, Ohio a son of the late William and Beulah Bryan Kuhn. He was employed by Steuben Coal and attended Springdale Friends Church in Kenwood, Ohio. He was preceded in death in addition to his parents, by an...

Clyde Harding

Clyde Harding

May 23, 2010

Clyde R. Harding, 70, Cadiz died Sunday May 23, 2010, at Trinity Medical Center West in Steubenville, Ohio. He was born October 13, 1939 in Perry County, Indiana, a son of the late Cecil and Savonia Corley Harding. Clyde attended the First Church of Christ in Cadiz. He was an employee of Truss and Panel and Wilgus and Company and...

Carl Goodrich

Carl Goodrich

May 22, 2010

Carl V. Goodrich, 85, of Bowerston, formerly of Cadiz and Jewett, died Saturday at Dover Union Hospital. He was born September 2, 1924 in St. Clairsville, Ohio, a son of the late Benjamin Carl and Anna Irene Keyser Goodrich. Mr. Goodrich was a retired Coal Miner from Consolidation Coal Company. He was an Army Air Corp Veteran of WW II...

Sonja Waller

Sonja Waller

May 3, 2010

Sonja L. Waller, 68, Cadiz, died Monday, May 3, 2010 at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born July 23, 1941 in Bellaire, Ohio a daughter of the late Charles and Cora LeMasters Norris. Sonja was a member of the North Main Street Church of Christ in Cadiz. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents,...

Keith Jones

Keith Jones

May 1, 2010

Our beloved Father, Brother, Uncle and Friend, Keith Allen Jones, 70, of Adena, left us to go to his eternal rest Saturday, May 1, 2010 surrounded by his loving family at his home of Foxes Bottom Road, Adena, Ohio on his "blue couch". He was born November 9, 1939 in Wheeling, West Virginia, a son of the late Bruce and...

William Applegarth

William Applegarth

Apr 23, 2010

William J. "Bill" Applegarth, 52, of New Athens, Ohio, died Friday, April 23, 2010 at Wheeling Hospital following a lengthy illness. He was born August 16, 1957 in Wheeling, a son of the late Harold P. (Bud) and Ruth L. Kelley Applegarth. Bill was a truck driver for Jack Matusek Trucking. He was an honorary member of the New Athens...

Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan

Apr 19, 2010

Robert Paul Morgan, 60, of Deersville, died Monday, April 19, 2010 at his home. He was born January 26, 1950 in Akron, Ohio, a son of the late Paul Francis and Janet Morrison Morgan. Paul was a self employed upholsterer in Deersville for many years. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Timothy Morgan....

William Davia

William Davia

Apr 16, 2010

William Junior DaVia, 81, Cadiz, died Friday, April 16, 2010 at Harrison Community Hospital in the emergency room. Junior was born August 14, 1928 in Amsterdam, Ohio a son of the late Pete and Blanche Tolbert DaVia. Junior was a member of Springdale Friends Church in Kenwood was a coal miner having worked in the Nelms #1 Mine for the...

Dollie Keener

Dollie Keener

Apr 9, 2010

Dollie L. Keener, 73, Cadiz, died Friday, April 9, 2010 at Carriage Inn of Cadiz, Ohio. She was born October 8, 1936 in Nashville, Tenn., a daughter of the late John and Florence Heckerson. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents, by both of her husbands: Kenneth Keener and James Gorby; a brother, Russell and 2 sisters:...